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A crop of maize variants

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Three new studies report large-scale resequencing and comparative genomic analysis of diverse maize varieties. The authors conducted a comprehensive characterization of sequence variation in maize genomes and identified signals of selection in maize domestication and breeding.

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Figure 1: Whole-genome screening of selection signatures during maize domestication and subsequent improvement.

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  1. Xuehui Huang and Bin Han are at the National Center for Gene Research, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,

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Huang, X., Han, B. A crop of maize variants. Nat Genet 44, 734–735 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2326

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